(Collected from various resources, and a couple of originals.)

You might be a graduate student if...

...your carrel is better decorated than your apartment.

...you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.

...you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop.

...everything reminds you of something in your discipline.

...you have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event.

...you have spent more than $50 on photocopying while researching a single paper.

...there is a microfilm reader in the library that you consider 'yours'.

...you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library.

...you look forward to summers because you're more productive without the distraction of classes.

...you consider all papers to be works in progress.

...you find the bibliographies of books and articles more interesting than the actual text.

...you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.

...you start referring to stories like 'Snow White et al.'

...you'd face a culinary crisis if you were denied pasta.

...taking time off to do laundry is a 'treat'.

...you have more photocopy cards than credit cards.

...you wonder whether APA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as 'personal communication'.

...you can identify universities by their internet domains.

...you have difficulty reading anything that doesn't have footnotes.

...you consider caffeine to be a major food group.

...you understand the following paradox: time away from research = free time; free time = opportunity to catch up on research.

...you've ever brought library books with you on vacation.

...Saturday nights spent studying no longer seem weird.

...you've ever travelled across time zones specifically to go to a library.

...you appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.

...you think true relaxation means studying in a park on a sunny day.

...you find yourself citing sources in conversation.